[SLL] telnet localhost

[Rob Smith]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:41 AM,  <johnbaxterlists at mac.com> wrote:
>  Be careful what you wish for.  You're thinking of telnet, the way to
>  get a shell connection on another machine.
>
>  But the protocol underlies a few little things like POP, IMAP, SMTP,
>  HTTP, LDAP, etc etc (almost anything that works over TCP rather than
>  UDP).  We really can't kill off that part.
>
>    --John

Officially telnet is a interactive client service protocol typically
on port 23 and handled by a telnet server.

What protocol underlines things like "POP, IMAP, SMTP, HTTP, LDAP, etc
etc (almost anything that works over TCP rather than UDP)" is exactly
what you said TCP, not telnet. Just because telnet works to interact
with said service doesn't mean it's a telnet service nor that it would
require telnet to work.

You can use netcat just as easily to interact with said services, but
that doesn't make them a netcat service, and often netcat is much
better to interact with the services as it doesn't attempt to
negotiate any terminal settings.